Income gap survived the recession

12:04 AM,
Nov. 16, 2012

Written by

Russ Zimmer
CentralOhio.com

Income growth in Ohio was nonexistent, regardless of class lines, during the 2000s, according to a report released today on income inequality.

Wide gaps in incomes that arose during the 1980s persisted, but the overall stagnation serves as another example that the state's problems in creating and retaining good-paying jobs predate the latest national recession.

"Pulling Apart," a report prepared by Washington think tanks the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Economic Policy Institute, found that low- and moderate-income families across the nation saw no benefit in wages ...